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Hungary

Hungary opens communist-era informer files in belated reckoning with Cold War past

Communist-era informer files in the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security (ABTL) in Budapest, Hungary, September 23, 2026. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/File Photo
Communist-era informer files in the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security (ABTL) in Budapest, Hungary, September 23, 2026. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/File Photo

Hungary's former PM Orban says he rebuffed secret police recruitment

FILE PHOTO: Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban holds a press conference in Budapest, Hungary, July 22, 2026. REUTERS/Marton Monus/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban holds a press conference in Budapest, Hungary, July 22, 2026. REUTERS/Marton Monus/File Photo

Hungary's governing party backs nominee for chief prosecutor

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar stands after delivering a speech to mark the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, in Budapest, Hungary, October 23, 2026. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar stands after delivering a speech to mark the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, in Budapest, Hungary, October 23, 2026. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

Hungary to stick with Orban-era nuclear cooperation deal with US

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar attends a plenary session in the Parliament, in Budapest, Hungary, October 19, 2026. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar attends a plenary session in the Parliament, in Budapest, Hungary, October 19, 2026. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

Norway to restart grant payments to Hungary after decade-long hiatus

FILE PHOTO: Norway's Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide speaks at the ASEAN Trilateral Meeting with Norway at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City 22 July 2026. ROLEX DELA PENA/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Norway's Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide speaks at the ASEAN Trilateral Meeting with Norway at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City 22 July 2026. ROLEX DELA PENA/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Schools in UK, Hungary, Serbia sent hoax bomb warnings

The authorities said some schools in Northern Ireland were forced to close after receiving emails containing a generalised threat.
The authorities said some schools in Northern Ireland were forced to close after receiving emails containing a generalised threat.

Hungary, Ukraine agree to reset ties, Magyar says

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Hungary's Prime Minister Peter Magyar greet each other during a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium October 16, 2026.  REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Hungary's Prime Minister Peter Magyar greet each other during a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium October 16, 2026.  REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq

Hungary's Orban denies ordering Ukrainian cash and gold seized when leader

Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban holds a press conference in Budapest, Hungary, July 22, 2026. REUTERS/Marton Monus
Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban holds a press conference in Budapest, Hungary, July 22, 2026. REUTERS/Marton Monus

In parched Hungary, volunteers build their own dams to hold onto vanishing water

Members of a water conservation group, Water Guardians Movement, work to retain water in the landscape near Budapest, Hungary, June 12, 2026. Volunteers are turning out in their hundreds to help the country build structures to retain rainwater and restore wetlands, techniques that mark a sharp turnaround from the past, when programmes focused on managing floods, not droughts.  REUTERS/Marton Monus
Members of a water conservation group, Water Guardians Movement, work to retain water in the landscape near Budapest, Hungary, June 12, 2026. Volunteers are turning out in their hundreds to help the country build structures to retain rainwater and restore wetlands, techniques that mark a sharp turnaround from the past, when programmes focused on managing floods, not droughts.  REUTERS/Marton Monus

Bestselling Hungarian newspaper shut down under Orban relaunches online

Editors and journalists prepare the relaunch of the Hungarian newspaper Nepszabadsag in the newsroom in Budapest, Hungary, October 6, 2026. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
Editors and journalists prepare the relaunch of the Hungarian newspaper Nepszabadsag in the newsroom in Budapest, Hungary, October 6, 2026. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

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